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- Recently I noticed that one can discover what files any machine contains
- so long as rpc.mountd on that machine has permissions to read it.
- rpc.mountd usually runs as root, so this is pottentially a severe
- vulnerability.
-
- Here's what happens. If I try to mount /etc/foobar on my Linux box (this
- has been tested with Ultrix also), and /etc/foobar does not exist, I get
- this error:
-
- slartibartfast:~# mount slarti:/etc/foobar /mnt
- mount: slarti:/etc/foobar failed, reason given by server: No such file or
- directory
- slartibartfast:~#
-
- If the file does exist, and I don't have permission to read it, I get this
- error:
-
- slartibartfast:~# mount slarti:/etc/passwd /mnt
- mount: slarti:/etc/passwd failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
- slartibartfast:~#
-
- Thus, by process of elemination, one can discover what software packages
- are installed (shadow, etc), in many cases what versions (such as
- sperl5.001), and thereby discover many security vulnerabilities without
- ever having logged on to the machine, and often only generating the log
- message:
-
- Aug 24 06:57:30 slartibartfast mountd[7220]: Access by unknown NFS client
- 10.9.8.2.
-
- which doesn't emphasize the seriousnous of this attack.
-
- It has been confirmed that this hole is present on at least
- some distributions/versions of Linux, Ultrix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS,
- Solaris, and probably many many more.
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-
- This was solved well before 2.1 OPENBSD shipped. The problem did exist in
- 2.0, but that's about a year old now, and has been replaced with 2.1.
-
- Here's the log entry:
-
- ----
- symbolic names:
- OPENBSD_2_1: 1.16.0.2
- OPENBSD_2_0: 1.11.0.2
- ...
- revision 1.12
- date: 1996/12/05 23:14:27; author: millert; state: Exp; lines: +14 -9
- Stop info gathering attack pointed out by Alan Cox-
- Only return ENOENT if the dir trying to be mounted is really exported
- to the client. Return EACCESS if not exported.
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- This works with AIX 3.2.5 and 4.1.4 too.
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